Scales of Life
From Basal Cognition to Planetary Intelligence
Symposium, 14-15 May 2025, 11:00-21:00
This symposium seeks to investigate how information processing, cognition, and other forms of sensing and making sense occur at different scales, and how the ways of understanding these scales inform and deform one another across the contemporary earth and life sciences. An exploration of these issues involves thinking with the increasingly relevant notion of the ‘planetary’ as a question of climate change and empire (Coen), as related to Gaia theory and its recent comeback in Earth System Science, as inclusive of the technosphere and its geopolitical implications (Bratton), and as a framing for understanding intelligence and life as planetary-scale phenomena (Frank et al.).
Keynote speakers: Deborah Coen, Michael Levin, Thomas Moynihan
Organized by Maria Dębińska, Magdalena Krysztoforska, Julia Sánchez-Dorado, Ben Woodard
The organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute talks, working across a range of fields: philosophy, history of science, social studies of science, biology, earth sciences, and the arts.
Deadline: 28 February 2025.
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